Archive for the 'Grad School' Category
I’m thinking about going back to school for a Post-Master’s Certificate. Does this make me a glutton for punishment? As an academic librarian I have access to this wonderful thing called “tuition remission” which basically translates to free tuition for a max of four classes per year. I’ve thought and thought about [...]
Phew! Who knew independent study could be so much work? I have spent the past semester learning to program PHP and MySQL as well as reading up on Exploratory Searching[1] - a topic I knew very little about a few months ago. The more I read, the more I am intrigued!
So now [...]
Argh! I was ready to pull out all of my hair after the frustrating experience that was installing Apache, MySQL and PHP this past week. What an incredible pain! I first tried to get it all running on Ubuntu-Linux, but after several hours of trying to get MySQL server to start I [...]
I discovered this fabulous site: UNIX Tutorial for Beginners which is exactly that. It starts at the beginning and is precisely what I needed.
AND the author makes the tutorial available to be copied, modified and presented as described in the Creative Commons Deed. Yay for sharing!
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A number of years after failing miserably at being a Computer Science major, I am giving programming another go. I’ve been writing HTML/CSS for a few years now so I’m going to take the next step and learn PHP. Okay, so it’s basically a scripting language and not a big time, all-around language [...]
Since the birth of my daughter Aliyah 3 months ago K and I have been reevaluating our immediate future plans. We’ve decided that I will only take one class per semester, instead of two as I have been. This means that my graduation will be delayed one year to May, 2008 - and [...]
